Can Rufus damage a device? No media + is not accessible A device which does not exist was specified
I used Rufus 3.15p to create an MBR bootable Windows 7 installer. An error occurred while the Rufus was copying the ISO file. Now the flash USB (SanDisk 8GB) does not work! In CMD Disk part shows "no media" instead of "online". Windows disk manager shows an empty disk with no media. In file manager just show a drive. Once I click on it, it shows "is not accessible A device which does not exist was specified". In properties, it doesn't show sizes and its partition style is MBR. Also, I cannot run check disk for this drive.
These solutions did not work for me:
- Assigning another label.
- Chkdsk
- Rebuild MBR of my internal disk with easeUS.
- DISKPART (clean and repartitioning)
- Disk Manager (nothing for partitioning or formatting)
- Reinstalling its driver
- HDD LLF Low Level Format Tool (did not detect its disk)
- PartitionWizard (did not detect it)
Can Rufus incomplete process cause the damage? Do you have any solution to fix the USB flash?
Solution 1:
As Rufus is just writing sectors to a device there is no chance for Rufus to damage it. With Rufus being typically used to write ISO files (disk images) to flash drives it puts the drive under an above average load. There is no issue with excessive wear when doing that. But there is a higher probability of pre-existing errors being disclosed because a lot of sectors are being touched in a short period of time.